Not to mention that AMD doesn't overclock nearly as well, as they are already pushed to their limits.
Seemingly an Intel K clocked at 3.2Ghz will hit 4.4Ghz on air, without much luck. Beyond that you are doing more voltage adjustments, heat, and will need something more robust than air cooling, and probably a bit of luck of the draw.
AMD is much "tighter" and higher base clock. 3.8 to 4.2 type thing. Not to mention as previous post mentioned in real world tests, Intel comes out on top 9/10 other than in very specific applications, and certainly not gaming.
AMD are considerably cheaper, and for good reason. However it is all price performance adjusted with Intel. So unless it overclocks significantly better than Intel (which it doesn't), or you go for the super budget low cost solution (why would an OC enthusiast be interested in that?) what exactly is the point?
Because it is the lazy fat management types to do the laying off of course...
When the org structure of the place you work at starts to look like an upside down pyramid, things have gone awry.
Imagine a place like Innotech from Office Space where the reason you have 8 bosses, is because management actually outnumbers workers. As a worker, looking at management layoffs of workers in this regard, sometimes wonder, "OK who is going to do all the actual work now? Management?"
I recall seeing some sketchy vendors advertising "dual core" systems at twice their clock. So a Core2Duo @3Ghz was advertised at 6Ghz. There were a bunch like that, I wonder if they ever got sued. Anyway a friend was arguing with me about their existence (to which I believe I know much more of these matters). However when he showed me the actual print ad, I laughed and laughed, and then cried a bit.
Never underestimate the power of advertising. This was a retailer which isn't a big deal, however I recall seeing some pretty BS misleading ads from manufactures as well including nVidia, ATI, Apple, etc...
My parents come up on Saturday. Mom has mentioned that it is Dad's birthday and father's day coming up. She wants me to help pick out a laptop for him. The problem is that neither of them are particularly tech savvy. Dad can follow explicit instructions that he usually writes on a piece of paper. They got a new desktop a few years back, and it was Windows 7. He is used to XP at his office and even that transition was painful. From what I have head of Windows 8 it is going to blow his mind (and not in a good way). However 99% of all laptops I can find at the usual suspects (Best Buy, Future Shop, etc...) are ALL Windows 8. I would love to get him a Windows 7 machine, but they are very hard to find and usually regulated to expensive old tech that didn't sell, like some Ultrabooks seem the only ones these days... So I am not sure what the recommendation is going to be. They are going to want to physically go out and buy it so I am around (I live 2000km away) to do whatever setup or advice they might need. Should be interesting. I suspect they are going to be forced to adjust to Windows 8 which no doubt will confuse the shit out of them, simply because consumers have pretty much zero choice.
Will be a computer. I would never buy anything from Sony given their history. Microsoft seems to want to alienate the gaming market for some reason.
Sure I will spend a bit more, mostly because I can. However given that console games are at best 1080P, building a basic system than can handle most games at that resolution (which is peanuts for any modern computer) wouldn't be all that expensive.
Besides I have a Xbox360 already that seems to work well, and my Core2Duo is getting a bit long in the tooth now. That said, when Fallout 4 comes out, I would be tempted. However I have no doubt it will be for the PC as well. I mean some people talk about the console "exclusives", but realistically if you look at it there are way more "exclusives" for the PC than both those consoles combined.
Unless you play multiplayer games, and all the users have left for the newer version. Or even better now companies will turn off game servers making it unplayable (which I expect will only increase in frequency) so users are forced to buy the new shiny.
I may. I have looked several times, and teksavvy wasn't available in my market. However I looked again recently and I think it might be available now. As I am sure as one of those Mars projects engineers might say, my math is fine, my units however....:)
Anyway I think the only reason I haven't switch yet is that Rogers hasn't really ticked me off lately (which they usually do eventually) and inertia/momentum/lazy has kept me from changing. However I could see myself switching in the near future.
Another thing thing that techsavvy has that Rogers doesn't is Static IP, or at least they used to. You used to be able to tack on a couple of Static IP addresses to your account for a couple extra bucks a month. Where both rogers and bell (of course because of all the competition you know) you are required to get a much more expensive business account rather than a residential. Which is quite handy if you don't actually have a business, but want to just mess about hosting all your own web servers etc... without having the extra complication of FreeDNS or all the rest of the Dynamic IP changing services out there.
They do if you are with Rogers or Bell. In the EULA they talk about "combined" caps, which of course includes uploads.
Rogers in terms of speed is pretty good if you get one of the Ultimate packages. Recently they randomly increased my cap, which was cool. Until I got a letter saying they were raising all the fees (which were already expensive), so it was really just justification for a money grab.
I pay about 80$ a month for just Internet. That gets me supposedly 30 MB/s and 275GB cap.
Also your 10MB/s and my 30MB/s are download speeds. Typical upload is MUCH slower. Mine is pretty fast a 2MB/s.
So if I got MAX 2MB/s upload (which I wouldn't no more than I actually get 30MB/s download), but if I did, it would take 10 days to do it. 1700000MB / 2MS/s = 850,000/60min = 14166/60h = 236/24d = 9.8 days.
What would actually happen, is I would get charged an extra fee over cap up to the maximum (it was 50$ but it is probably 75$ now), so 155$... However, I am certain that they would totally shut off my service well before I ever got 1.7TB, making the whole procedure moot. Since it was a BT, I could probably pick up from where I left off the following month once the cap resets. However how far I would get past the 275GB cap before they axed me for the month, is likely one of those arbitrary statements in the EULA that says something to the effect "RSVP the right to terminate service for exceeding the cap by a large amount, whereby Rogers RVSP the right to define/change what a large amount actually means"...
Before people get their panties in a bunch, this should be explained.I work for government and see these sorts of costs all the time. The UK, or any place for that matter is not unique in this regard.
"Maintaining" is bad wording.
Governments (or none that I am aware of) never "own" anything. Everything is a Lease. First off, I would agree that usually the Leases are TOTAL rip offs. It is questionable why this is. Perhaps corruption, or pay off. Perhaps political, buying from a particular company or region not really competitive, or it could be that only a handful of companies have the capacity to fill an order of that size, and thus change a premium.
So there is one thing, high lease which is usually a 4 years term, by which you can figure out what 1 year costs you. Again, this isn't really "maintaince", but would be called such.
In addition, and more importantly, each "seat" is usually charged a number of fees on top of whatever the lease rate is. The fees are everything from providing basic IT helpdesk support, to network changes, to IT infrastructure costs such as maintaining corporate servers, websites, software, etc.... pretty much EVERYTHING to do with IT. Now then you take that large number divide, it by seats, and apply it. That is how much a "Computer" costs to a business area, so yes, each one will be much more than what you might find at the bargain bin at futureshop.
It is usually pretty damn high, but it is more to do with crappy leases, and an IT payment structure tacked on. So it is a bit misleading to say the least. Don't get me wrong, it is still bad, but not nearly as bad as it is being made out to be.
I agree, immediately, they have nothing to worry about. However as sales, and the new Haswell chip release this past week have been showing, the trend is from Desktop machines to laptop machines. Heck even at my work over the last say 10 years, I would say grown in laptops over traditional laptops is a factor of x10. I need a serious desktop for some of my work functions, but the truth is, most do not need the power.
The difference between a tablet and a laptop, particularly some of the variations on a laptop, like the "Ultrabook" and the "Netbook" narrow the margin of definition between the two. This will likely continue to occur as tablets get more power. The more people that use say tablet or phone devices using different OS (which is why Win8 failure or no), the less brand is locked into Windows. Then you see OS "creep" from between devices. Case in point "Chromebooks".
I mean really the big thing Windows has had is that everyone knows how to use them, and no one (or only very specialized users) knows how to use the alternatives, hence their monopoly more less. As soon as casual users start being able to use other OS, and those other OS start to have a code base (and now they mostly share fundamentals anyway), it is going to start to become easier and easier to switch. Which is what MS should be afraid of. Won't happen immediately, but in 5 or 10 years.... who knows. As for Apple, they are just intentionally elitist with their walled garden and incompatibility with everyone else. MS will never really have to worry about a niche product like that. That is their business model, and I don't see that changing. Seems to be working for them as they are very profitable.
"1.) Carriers must provide the option to unlock a cell phone after 3 months for subsidized phones within the contract period, or immediately if the device was purchased outright."
I am not sure what this will accomplish. It will only give you the option to change, but this doesn't say that it will be financially reasonable.
"2.) Contracts are now capped at two years, and cancellation fees are limited to the amount of the subsidy."
I do believe the "subsidy" just quadrupled and the 2 year contracts now cost as much as 3.
"3.) Carriers can no longer charge outrageous data overage and international roaming charges. Without explicit consent from the a customer, such charges are capped at $50 and $100 per month, respectively."
You will be disconnected within 5min of entering international roaming and owe 100$, same with data fees, but 50$. However it will be nice not to be fearful that you can accidentally bankrupt yourself by some phone app or feature making your have a 20,000$ bill just by traveling outside Canada.
Moviegoers will watch as only a few of the cast actual show up on time for the movie and will wait around for about an hour or so for the rest. After which a number of key roles will be missing, and which point the cast will start pugging actors from other movies which are currently playing which will take about another hour of the movie. The last 30 minutes of the movie which will be an exciting action packed blockbuster, which will eventually end with all the good guys eventually die, saying the hell with it and.... fin... fade to black... CUT!.
No, it's hilarious that someone thinks that a multinational conglomerate corporation is "American".
Sorry other than emotional cries for help from government, do you really think any of them are nationalistic at all?
Also I love how they co-opt the work "Theft" in the title, when I am sure they know legally it is called Copyright Infringement, and is not the same thing as theft, however it has a more emotional connotation.
Clearly a political ploy and emotionally inflammatory.
"So go ahead and buy the UK and USA scraps it is cheaper."
Considering we are talking about failed submarines, you may want to Google that a teeny tiny bit. One of Canada's largest ever military spending snafu's was buying several diesel subs from the UK.
Considering our recent history I don't find it surprising that Canada decided to design their own. I don't find it at all surprising that it cost 10 times as much either. Consider they are comparing the costs to a country that we actually bought the designs off of, who has designed ships in the past. Canada had Irving design the ship, which I don't think has ANY warship design experience, so yeah some cost overruns are going to take place. In addition Irving is of of the richest family's in Canada, who regularly hide their wealth and avoid taxes by putting all their money in tax haven countries. I sure (insert sarcasm) they didn't ripoff Canadians, and I am sure (insert more sarcasm) that the Conservative Party wasn't aware that would happen. It is also politically motivated decision from the perspective to keep the money/jobs local, even if it cost 10 times as much as it would have been to have some other company (say the Norwegian one) design it. Then again there is also the whole secret nature, and do you want foreign country or company to have your design specs (you are assuming of course that any corporate entity has any loyalty past their NDA)?
Anyway this might also have been complicated by "unrealistic" design specs. If these are the ships I believe them to be, they are the ones to be used in the arctic. So rather than getting nuclear ice breakers like Russia which would make more sense, the Conservatives wanted to go with Warships that were "Hardened" for arctic travel. Which frankly is retarded. So they likely had to take a perfectly good ship design that the Norwegians come up with, then "hardened" the hull so that it was a very ineffective icebreaker, but likely added 200 tonnes to the displacement, making the entire design have to be reworked, as otherwise they might be sailing with those a fore mentioned Spanish submarines at the bottom of the ocean.
I am pretty sure the benchmarks will be wildly different. Anyway the summary makes it sound like it is all one thing. I am sure it will be very good and all, but I know I won't be getting one of those power saving versions. POWER! (To quote Clarkson)
Hey not arguing that the publications might all be sourcing the same material (lazy), or that the content of your cite is without merit.
However saying you posted facts and it shouldn't matter where they are published is horseshit and you know it. Who does that blog answer to? Professionally?
While this is not a extreme example (though one might argue that anyone that contributes to a crypto blog on a regular basis other than an academic setting may indeed be a crackpot), but I bet if I got some "facts" about "Jews" from a "Neo-Nazi" (ewww Godwin already!) blog, you may just want to call those "facts" into question. I know this is a ridiculous example but it is to make a point. An established journalism source is where I cited my reference while you sourced from a some blog on the internet by some dude. I am not saying your "facts" are wrong, simply that you can't refute mine so simply. i.e. Wrong. This.
50 Minutes and 3 miles doesn't really sound like enough time or distance for military or police operations really.
However if you know of some celebrities sunbathing nude in a secure compound...
Fits into a backpack eh? So you can sneak right up to the edge of someones property to launch, get all the shots you need to hit pay dirt, and get out before anyone can locate you. Privacy folks are going to have a field day with this... Or high end gated communities with small scale AA guns...
First off, argue one way or another, but one is an established publication (multiple actually), and you posted some blog on the interwebs to refute it. Not saying I disagree, just establishing source material. Suffice it to say, that perhaps there is still some contention around the decoding.
Which, actually proves my point all the more (provided of course that it isn't all just random noise or a prank, which seems highly doubtful) as given the relation to this posted topic, shouldn't this have been solved eons ago using all our technological electronic wizardry? Even if it was a OTP (which I see in the comments section people were back to speculating, including some rotary coders etc...), according to this article it would seem that it is vulnerable. A OTP from the 40's should be child's play! Which I say is hokum. It isn't the code that is more easily broken, only the implementation, which will allow the decoder to "cheat".
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Not to mention that AMD doesn't overclock nearly as well, as they are already pushed to their limits.
Seemingly an Intel K clocked at 3.2Ghz will hit 4.4Ghz on air, without much luck. Beyond that you are doing more voltage adjustments, heat, and will need something more robust than air cooling, and probably a bit of luck of the draw.
AMD is much "tighter" and higher base clock. 3.8 to 4.2 type thing. Not to mention as previous post mentioned in real world tests, Intel comes out on top 9/10 other than in very specific applications, and certainly not gaming.
AMD are considerably cheaper, and for good reason. However it is all price performance adjusted with Intel. So unless it overclocks significantly better than Intel (which it doesn't), or you go for the super budget low cost solution (why would an OC enthusiast be interested in that?) what exactly is the point?
Because it is the lazy fat management types to do the laying off of course...
When the org structure of the place you work at starts to look like an upside down pyramid, things have gone awry.
Imagine a place like Innotech from Office Space where the reason you have 8 bosses, is because management actually outnumbers workers. As a worker, looking at management layoffs of workers in this regard, sometimes wonder, "OK who is going to do all the actual work now? Management?"
Sounds like all the stories out of EA. Everyone wants to be a game dev. So with the popularity of the job, comes the exploitation of the worker.
You eat pieces of shit like him for breakfast!
I recall seeing some sketchy vendors advertising "dual core" systems at twice their clock. So a Core2Duo @3Ghz was advertised at 6Ghz. There were a bunch like that, I wonder if they ever got sued. Anyway a friend was arguing with me about their existence (to which I believe I know much more of these matters). However when he showed me the actual print ad, I laughed and laughed, and then cried a bit.
Never underestimate the power of advertising. This was a retailer which isn't a big deal, however I recall seeing some pretty BS misleading ads from manufactures as well including nVidia, ATI, Apple, etc...
You might see 10Ghz sooner than you think! :)
My parents come up on Saturday. Mom has mentioned that it is Dad's birthday and father's day coming up. She wants me to help pick out a laptop for him. The problem is that neither of them are particularly tech savvy. Dad can follow explicit instructions that he usually writes on a piece of paper. They got a new desktop a few years back, and it was Windows 7. He is used to XP at his office and even that transition was painful. From what I have head of Windows 8 it is going to blow his mind (and not in a good way). However 99% of all laptops I can find at the usual suspects (Best Buy, Future Shop, etc...) are ALL Windows 8. I would love to get him a Windows 7 machine, but they are very hard to find and usually regulated to expensive old tech that didn't sell, like some Ultrabooks seem the only ones these days... So I am not sure what the recommendation is going to be. They are going to want to physically go out and buy it so I am around (I live 2000km away) to do whatever setup or advice they might need. Should be interesting. I suspect they are going to be forced to adjust to Windows 8 which no doubt will confuse the shit out of them, simply because consumers have pretty much zero choice.
Will be a computer. I would never buy anything from Sony given their history. Microsoft seems to want to alienate the gaming market for some reason.
Sure I will spend a bit more, mostly because I can. However given that console games are at best 1080P, building a basic system than can handle most games at that resolution (which is peanuts for any modern computer) wouldn't be all that expensive.
Besides I have a Xbox360 already that seems to work well, and my Core2Duo is getting a bit long in the tooth now. That said, when Fallout 4 comes out, I would be tempted. However I have no doubt it will be for the PC as well. I mean some people talk about the console "exclusives", but realistically if you look at it there are way more "exclusives" for the PC than both those consoles combined.
Unless you play multiplayer games, and all the users have left for the newer version. Or even better now companies will turn off game servers making it unplayable (which I expect will only increase in frequency) so users are forced to buy the new shiny.
Remember the PS3 being advertised and sold as being open and able to run Linux?
Then later throw a switch to OFF.
No apologies.
Sorry, I don't believe a word they say. This is all hype, they might stick to it for a year or two, then when the have a market base etc... OFF.
I may. I have looked several times, and teksavvy wasn't available in my market. However I looked again recently and I think it might be available now. As I am sure as one of those Mars projects engineers might say, my math is fine, my units however.... :)
Anyway I think the only reason I haven't switch yet is that Rogers hasn't really ticked me off lately (which they usually do eventually) and inertia/momentum/lazy has kept me from changing. However I could see myself switching in the near future.
Another thing thing that techsavvy has that Rogers doesn't is Static IP, or at least they used to. You used to be able to tack on a couple of Static IP addresses to your account for a couple extra bucks a month. Where both rogers and bell (of course because of all the competition you know) you are required to get a much more expensive business account rather than a residential. Which is quite handy if you don't actually have a business, but want to just mess about hosting all your own web servers etc... without having the extra complication of FreeDNS or all the rest of the Dynamic IP changing services out there.
They do if you are with Rogers or Bell. In the EULA they talk about "combined" caps, which of course includes uploads.
Rogers in terms of speed is pretty good if you get one of the Ultimate packages. Recently they randomly increased my cap, which was cool. Until I got a letter saying they were raising all the fees (which were already expensive), so it was really just justification for a money grab.
I pay about 80$ a month for just Internet. That gets me supposedly 30 MB/s and 275GB cap.
Also your 10MB/s and my 30MB/s are download speeds. Typical upload is MUCH slower. Mine is pretty fast a 2MB/s.
So if I got MAX 2MB/s upload (which I wouldn't no more than I actually get 30MB/s download), but if I did, it would take 10 days to do it. /60min = 14166 /60h = 236 /24d = 9.8 days.
1700000MB / 2MS/s = 850,000
What would actually happen, is I would get charged an extra fee over cap up to the maximum (it was 50$ but it is probably 75$ now), so 155$... However, I am certain that they would totally shut off my service well before I ever got 1.7TB, making the whole procedure moot. Since it was a BT, I could probably pick up from where I left off the following month once the cap resets. However how far I would get past the 275GB cap before they axed me for the month, is likely one of those arbitrary statements in the EULA that says something to the effect "RSVP the right to terminate service for exceeding the cap by a large amount, whereby Rogers RVSP the right to define/change what a large amount actually means"...
Saw a comment on Boing Boing, that I liked:
There have been no whistle blowers since 2000, only traitors and spies...
Before people get their panties in a bunch, this should be explained.I work for government and see these sorts of costs all the time. The UK, or any place for that matter is not unique in this regard.
"Maintaining" is bad wording.
Governments (or none that I am aware of) never "own" anything. Everything is a Lease. First off, I would agree that usually the Leases are TOTAL rip offs. It is questionable why this is. Perhaps corruption, or pay off. Perhaps political, buying from a particular company or region not really competitive, or it could be that only a handful of companies have the capacity to fill an order of that size, and thus change a premium.
So there is one thing, high lease which is usually a 4 years term, by which you can figure out what 1 year costs you. Again, this isn't really "maintaince", but would be called such.
In addition, and more importantly, each "seat" is usually charged a number of fees on top of whatever the lease rate is. The fees are everything from providing basic IT helpdesk support, to network changes, to IT infrastructure costs such as maintaining corporate servers, websites, software, etc.... pretty much EVERYTHING to do with IT. Now then you take that large number divide, it by seats, and apply it. That is how much a "Computer" costs to a business area, so yes, each one will be much more than what you might find at the bargain bin at futureshop.
It is usually pretty damn high, but it is more to do with crappy leases, and an IT payment structure tacked on. So it is a bit misleading to say the least. Don't get me wrong, it is still bad, but not nearly as bad as it is being made out to be.
I agree, immediately, they have nothing to worry about. However as sales, and the new Haswell chip release this past week have been showing, the trend is from Desktop machines to laptop machines. Heck even at my work over the last say 10 years, I would say grown in laptops over traditional laptops is a factor of x10. I need a serious desktop for some of my work functions, but the truth is, most do not need the power.
The difference between a tablet and a laptop, particularly some of the variations on a laptop, like the "Ultrabook" and the "Netbook" narrow the margin of definition between the two. This will likely continue to occur as tablets get more power. The more people that use say tablet or phone devices using different OS (which is why Win8 failure or no), the less brand is locked into Windows. Then you see OS "creep" from between devices. Case in point "Chromebooks".
I mean really the big thing Windows has had is that everyone knows how to use them, and no one (or only very specialized users) knows how to use the alternatives, hence their monopoly more less. As soon as casual users start being able to use other OS, and those other OS start to have a code base (and now they mostly share fundamentals anyway), it is going to start to become easier and easier to switch. Which is what MS should be afraid of. Won't happen immediately, but in 5 or 10 years.... who knows. As for Apple, they are just intentionally elitist with their walled garden and incompatibility with everyone else. MS will never really have to worry about a niche product like that. That is their business model, and I don't see that changing. Seems to be working for them as they are very profitable.
"1.) Carriers must provide the option to unlock a cell phone after 3 months for subsidized phones within the contract period, or immediately if the device was purchased outright."
I am not sure what this will accomplish. It will only give you the option to change, but this doesn't say that it will be financially reasonable.
"2.) Contracts are now capped at two years, and cancellation fees are limited to the amount of the subsidy."
I do believe the "subsidy" just quadrupled and the 2 year contracts now cost as much as 3.
"3.) Carriers can no longer charge outrageous data overage and international roaming charges. Without explicit consent from the a customer, such charges are capped at $50 and $100 per month, respectively."
You will be disconnected within 5min of entering international roaming and owe 100$, same with data fees, but 50$. However it will be nice not to be fearful that you can accidentally bankrupt yourself by some phone app or feature making your have a 20,000$ bill just by traveling outside Canada.
The Plot of the movie will be as follows:
Moviegoers will watch as only a few of the cast actual show up on time for the movie and will wait around for about an hour or so for the rest. After which a number of key roles will be missing, and which point the cast will start pugging actors from other movies which are currently playing which will take about another hour of the movie. The last 30 minutes of the movie which will be an exciting action packed blockbuster, which will eventually end with all the good guys eventually die, saying the hell with it and.... fin... fade to black... CUT!.
No, it's hilarious that someone thinks that a multinational conglomerate corporation is "American".
Sorry other than emotional cries for help from government, do you really think any of them are nationalistic at all?
Also I love how they co-opt the work "Theft" in the title, when I am sure they know legally it is called Copyright Infringement, and is not the same thing as theft, however it has a more emotional connotation.
Clearly a political ploy and emotionally inflammatory.
Better contact the Ministry of Truth.
"So go ahead and buy the UK and USA scraps it is cheaper."
Considering we are talking about failed submarines, you may want to Google that a teeny tiny bit. One of Canada's largest ever military spending snafu's was buying several diesel subs from the UK.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/03/15/ns-british-mp-questions-sub-deal.html
Considering our recent history I don't find it surprising that Canada decided to design their own. I don't find it at all surprising that it cost 10 times as much either. Consider they are comparing the costs to a country that we actually bought the designs off of, who has designed ships in the past. Canada had Irving design the ship, which I don't think has ANY warship design experience, so yeah some cost overruns are going to take place. In addition Irving is of of the richest family's in Canada, who regularly hide their wealth and avoid taxes by putting all their money in tax haven countries. I sure (insert sarcasm) they didn't ripoff Canadians, and I am sure (insert more sarcasm) that the Conservative Party wasn't aware that would happen. It is also politically motivated decision from the perspective to keep the money/jobs local, even if it cost 10 times as much as it would have been to have some other company (say the Norwegian one) design it. Then again there is also the whole secret nature, and do you want foreign country or company to have your design specs (you are assuming of course that any corporate entity has any loyalty past their NDA)?
Anyway this might also have been complicated by "unrealistic" design specs. If these are the ships I believe them to be, they are the ones to be used in the arctic. So rather than getting nuclear ice breakers like Russia which would make more sense, the Conservatives wanted to go with Warships that were "Hardened" for arctic travel. Which frankly is retarded. So they likely had to take a perfectly good ship design that the Norwegians come up with, then "hardened" the hull so that it was a very ineffective icebreaker, but likely added 200 tonnes to the displacement, making the entire design have to be reworked, as otherwise they might be sailing with those a fore mentioned Spanish submarines at the bottom of the ocean.
Would that make it the first Caterpillar drive used in a submarine?
I'll get a 3 decimetre sub with a 30 centilitre beverage please!
Like most CPU's these days, they produce a lot of variants.
For this article they are likely talking about the "U" variant with 15W TDP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)#Mobile_processors
You can't really compare that with the (or say in same breath) desktop "K" variant with 84W TDP (also has twice the cores and threads).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)#Desktop_processors
I am pretty sure the benchmarks will be wildly different. Anyway the summary makes it sound like it is all one thing. I am sure it will be very good and all, but I know I won't be getting one of those power saving versions. POWER! (To quote Clarkson)
Hey not arguing that the publications might all be sourcing the same material (lazy), or that the content of your cite is without merit.
However saying you posted facts and it shouldn't matter where they are published is horseshit and you know it. Who does that blog answer to? Professionally?
While this is not a extreme example (though one might argue that anyone that contributes to a crypto blog on a regular basis other than an academic setting may indeed be a crackpot), but I bet if I got some "facts" about "Jews" from a "Neo-Nazi" (ewww Godwin already!) blog, you may just want to call those "facts" into question. I know this is a ridiculous example but it is to make a point. An established journalism source is where I cited my reference while you sourced from a some blog on the internet by some dude. I am not saying your "facts" are wrong, simply that you can't refute mine so simply. i.e. Wrong. This.
Would be the likely market for these I think.
50 Minutes and 3 miles doesn't really sound like enough time or distance for military or police operations really.
However if you know of some celebrities sunbathing nude in a secure compound...
Fits into a backpack eh? So you can sneak right up to the edge of someones property to launch, get all the shots you need to hit pay dirt, and get out before anyone can locate you. Privacy folks are going to have a field day with this... Or high end gated communities with small scale AA guns...
First off, argue one way or another, but one is an established publication (multiple actually), and you posted some blog on the interwebs to refute it. Not saying I disagree, just establishing source material. Suffice it to say, that perhaps there is still some contention around the decoding.
Which, actually proves my point all the more (provided of course that it isn't all just random noise or a prank, which seems highly doubtful) as given the relation to this posted topic, shouldn't this have been solved eons ago using all our technological electronic wizardry? Even if it was a OTP (which I see in the comments section people were back to speculating, including some rotary coders etc...), according to this article it would seem that it is vulnerable. A OTP from the 40's should be child's play! Which I say is hokum. It isn't the code that is more easily broken, only the implementation, which will allow the decoder to "cheat".
They should turn ALL Sears stores into data centers!